I have some additional family lore on the elusive Elizabeth F. HOWE. Does anybody see anything in here that looks familiar? Elizabeth Fisher Howe, known as "Lizzie" on her wedding certificate. She was born 1860, in New Jersey and died 1952 in Cheyenne, Wyoming at 92 of pneumonia. She apparently "ran away" according to family history. Another source states she was also orphaned. "My Dad met my mom out here. She was here, she came out from Missouri, no Kansas [City]. She came out with a couple, we called them Uncle Jim and Aunt Laudie, I think they were some relation to her. They came out west with her, this old boy and his wife. He was an artisan. She got a job out here. Oh Gee, I think it was at the Key City Hotel, waitressing and such. The teamsters used to eat in there. She and my dad met and were married, let's see, in I think about 1885." (May 1, 1886 on wedding certificate, they were both 26 years old.) According to a daughter, "mother was born in New Jersey, where I do not know. She had sisters and brothers. She came out west with her sister, and she worked in a boarding house." A son recalls, Elizabeth F Howe: "She was a very cool, calm collected ole lady. She was English, English descent. She raised seven children on $12.00 a week. She did pretty good. They used to have the hydrant outside, the outhouse out there, every thing you did, the washing, you know. Washing for seven kids, you know we only changed clothes once a week, every Saturday night. The eldest first, I was second, and then my sisters, and finally the baby came last, he always got fresh water, in a dish pan." Her son Richard Walter said Elizabeth's brother owned 'Howe Scales'. My notes state, the Levens, (Leatherman). The names Wheelers & Spencers also came up in my notes. Richard thought they were the names of some of her ancestry. She is related to Bishop Gleason Howe of Alaska, ("her brother, or nephew, an uncle?" According to Margaret M. Walters, Aunt Laudie was Elizabeth F Howe's sister, which would have made her Richard's aunt, and Bishop Gleason Howe was her brother. EFH did have sisters & brothers, according to Margaret M. Walters. She died of pneumonia and had previously had a hip fracture. I once asked Margret what she recalls of her mother that was remarkable and she said she had her appendix removed at ninety and survived. Grandma Lizzie was in Memorial Hospital for 15 months! Any HOWE researchers see a connection? --Jim j@usa.net ==== HOWE Mailing List ==== to unsubscribe send the command " unsubscribe" to: HOWE-L-request@rootsweb.com for list mode or HOWE-D-request@rootsweb.com for digest mode